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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
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ThesisAI
✓ verifiedPaid

AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.

189K visits/mo32K saves
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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.

140K visits/mo
2.4M visits/mo
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Coddy - Code Makes Perfect
✓ verifiedFreemium

Gamified platform to learn 20+ programming languages via interactive lessons, a browser playground and an AI tutor.

2.5M visits/mo2.0K saves
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Per document: from $4

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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • Full document drafting from one prompt
  • Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
  • Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
  • Inline citation verification
  • Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
  • Overleaf integration for manual editing
  • Zotero and Mendeley library import
  • literature review generator with per-sentence citations
  • AI reader for PDFs
  • AI writer with citations
  • academic claim verification
  • question answering over literature
  • daily, conference and best-paper digests
  • cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
  • Video lessons
  • Revision notes
  • Quizzes
  • Flashcards
  • Exam-style questions
  • Past papers
  • Interactive lessons in 20+ languages
  • Browser playground to run code with no setup
  • AI tutor that explains and debugs code
  • Shareable completion certifications
  • Cheat sheets, docs and developer tools
  • Team/business training option
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Researchers producing a literature review quickly
  • Students drafting long papers with verified citations
  • Academics writing in a non-native language
  • Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • Preparing for Maths and Science exams at KS3, GCSE, and A-Level.
  • Learning to code from scratch
  • Practicing a new programming language
  • Getting instant AI help while coding
  • Earning certificates to share
  • Onboarding and training engineering teams
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